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NASB | Acts 12:1 Now about that time Herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the church in order to mistreat them. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 12:1 Now at that time Herod [Agrippa I] the king [of the Jews] arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to harm them. |
Subject: The Church Visible and Invisible |
Bible Note: Rather than talk visible and invisible let us use the terms physical and spiritual as nothing is invisible to God or to the Holy Spirit that dwells within each Christian My concern is the physical church and the spiritual church has allowed itself to associate with sin. 2 Cor. 6:14-17. Far too often our desire to maintain a physical church deceives the spiritual church into allowing compromise into it. This should never happen. The world mocks the church today because of what it sees within the physical church. It sees compromise and all forms of hypocrisy and sin. The question is, is it possible for any of us to step into and out of this sinful union and then truthfully declare we are unaffected by that association? 2 Cor. 6:14-17 clearly states that we can’t. First Timothy chapter 3 and Titus 1:7-9 give us the qualifications for church leadership, I believe any and all violations of these qualifiers band that person from being a teacher or leader within the church, no exceptions. Their pontifications should not be received nor given any attention. To do so requires us to wink at their sin and puts us squarely in the conviction of 2 Cor 6:14-17. Yes the church is to pull sinner from the muck and mire of sin but no where is it remotely suggested that church gets into that muck and mire. To do so is the definition of dysfunctional and this is exactly how the world sees the physical church today as being dysfunctional and floundering like the rest of humanity. We say there is hope in Christ but the world sees little hope in the physical church. We can declare the spiritual church is pure but is it? In light of scripture association with sin will effect the spiritual church as well. Enough talk of all things great and small it is time the church returns to the place it was called, to holiness. 1 Thess 4:7, Heb 12:14, 2 Cor. 7:1. |
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